The Iola register., 1887-12-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

OSeFUl AND SUGGESTIVE.
Care should be exercised in choos-
ing dairy salt
Horses for city driving, especially.
should have sound feet.
lin baking apple or peach dump
lings fill the pan two-thirds full Of
water; they are not so dry and hard.
--Shrunken seed may do fairly well
Il the conditions CT termination and
subsequent growth are favorable.
but plump seed will do much better.
"A new importation from Europe is
an ingenious piece of mechanism in the
form Of b,rl which sings and goes
through the motions of q canary with .
fidelity to nature that is sald to be
surprising.
Fruit Cake: Two pounds Of raisins.
three cups Of molasses. three eggs.
two-thirds of cup Of butter. seven
cups of flour. one tablespoonful Of
soda. spices to taste. citron and cur
rants if desired. Boston Budget
Many well-known weeds. though
unfit for food when maturcd. are high
ly valued as greens when young. The
poke weed has been used in some Sec
tions for years, yet its berries arc
poisonous. It is now claimed that
the common purslaine is excellent
when young as greens.-IndiGnapotis
Journal,
Lobster Salad: One can of lobster,
chopped fine, twelve hard boiled eggs
chopped fine. one cup of vinegar. one
tablespoonful of mustard. one-half tea
spoonful of pepper, small piece of but
ter, One-half cup of cream. two raw
eggs. well beaten; heat until boiling;
mix with lobster and eggs and lay ON
lettuce leaves. E1chaage.
d Baked Omelet: Heat three tea
cupfuls of milk. melting in it a bit Of
butter rs large as a walnut. Beat we'll
together five eggs, one tablespoonful Of
flour. and scant teaspoonful Of salt.
and add to the hot milk stirring as rap
idly as possible. Turn into hot. we'll
buttered frying-pan and bake in quick
oven One-quarter of an hour.-FGsmer
and Manufacturer.
Cut up firm head of cabbage. put
in a saucepan with boiling water. boil
fifteen minutes, drain off the water and
dress with half pint of vinegar. an
ounce of sugar, salt, pepper, mustard.
and one tablespoonful of butter. Set
on the fire, boil, and add teacup of
cream and one egg. Mix with the cab
bage and cook five minutes. -lndian-
apolis Journal.
Corn Starch: One pint of milk,
three whites of eggs, three tablespoon
fuls of corn starch, three tablespoon
fuls of sugar; boil the milk. add the
other ingredients. and pour in mould.
Make a custard of one pint of milk.
three yolks of eggs and three table
spoonfuls Of sugar; flavor. Add boiled
milk. and when ready to serve. pour
around the white part.-Bosson Budget.
DIR. Stumpf says that piece of ice
placed in bag, and then in a box or
basket containing enough barley-chaf
to surround it with layer of five or
six inches thick, will not lose 25 per
cent of its weight in five or six days.
in room the temperature Of which is
between 20 degrees and 80 degrees
This suggests an excellent way to pre-
serve various articles of food and drink,
as well as ice itself.
Chicken Pie: Cut up your chick
en-. parboil it, season it in the pot,
take up the meat. put in a flour thick
ening, and scald the gravy; make the
crust of cream. put in piece of butter
or lard the size of an egg; take largo
tin-pan. line it with crust, put in tho
meat, and pour in the gravy from the
pot; make it nearly full. cover over
with u crust, leaving vent Bake in
a moderate oven two hours or perhaps
two and half.-Detro,t Free Press.
Henry Stewart says in Troy Times
that the frequent diseases of poultry
are all due to mismanagement. Now
starved and then crammed with food;
housed in noisome. damp. filthy sheds,
or not housed at all; confined in coops
for month in the same spot, swarming
with lice. deprived of water or drinking
the drainage of the manure piles; fed
with insufficient nutritious food, and.
when consequently troubled with tho
various ailments known as chicken
cholera, dosed with alum. copperas.
camphor, castor oil, oak-bark tea. sul-
phur, cayenne pepper, patent pills.
pain-killer. condition powders, SCOT.
ashes. soft soap and other ''physic."
they lie down in despair and die